Pat Rankin wrote:
> I was about to also suggest that there
> be a rogue/non-rogue (with perhaps a third choice meaning "both")
> attribute. That way we could keep the rogue choices from being
> listed in the "symset" menu and the non-rogue choices from the
> "roguesymset" menu. Players who deliberately wanted to switch
> over would need to modify the attribute, possibly on a cloned set.
> Or perhaps they could just explicitly set their desired choices
> via NETHACKOPTIONS or .nethackrc and not use the 'O' menues--the
> new attribute doesn't necessary have to block which sets get used
> where, just filter menu entries to display the most applicable
> candidates.
Clean up the preprocessing associated with the
loadable symbol stuff.
Base it on new LOADSYMSETS, rather than on the
previously existing ASCIIGRAPH preprocessor define.
- reduce the number of symbol tables for each graphics
set {PRIMARY, ROGUESET} from three {map, oc, mon}
tables for each of the display symbols, the loadable symbols,
and the rogue symbols, to one continguous table for
each:
showsyms: the current display symbols
l_syms: the loaded, alterable symbols
r_syms: the rogue symbols
- Modify mapglyph so that the index into the symbolt table is
available as a return value (it was a void function), rather than
just the char converted from the glyph.
- That makes it possible for a window port to use the same
index value to extract from another table (perhaps a unicode
table) for a different set of display symbols. The index
is much more useful than trying to convert the character
into another type of symbol, as some contributed patches
have done.
- It is much easier to load a single alternative flat table to
make substitutions, since the corresponding value just
has to get placed into the same index offset in the
alternative table.
This also fixes a bug I found in botl.c, where you could
go to the rogue level, and the bottom line gold symbol
was not being updated with the new character as it should.
The reason was because the gold value had not changed,
only the field symbol used had changed.
This updates multiple ports to place a (void) cast on
the mapglyph call, now that it returns a value, so this
is going to generate a lot of diff e-mails.
Pat Rankin wrote:
> Symbol set definitions need a description attribute, above and
> beyond allowing comments in the file, for inclusion in the 'O'
> command's menu entries for selecting them.
[...]
> mapglyph.c isn't the proper place to decide whether to define
> ROGUE_COLOR. That may need to become a symbol attribute,
> which we'd then specify on the Epyx rogue set(s).
Implement both of the suggestions above.
- Instead of checking for the Rogue level, check which
graphics are engaged (PRIMARY or ROGUESET) in the
SYMHANDLING() macro.
- track which graphics are active through 'currentgraphics'.
- Instead of symset and roguesymset and symhandling and roguehandling
variables, have symset and symhandling be arrays of two, with the
following indexes:
PRIMARY
ROGUESET
That reduced the amount of repeated code.
(Not to be confused with the 'symset' and 'roguesymset' config file options
both of which still exist)
- the symbol routines were adjusted to pass
the index , rather than 'rogueflag' and coding to roguesymset etc.
Other than fixing bugs that are encountered, this is probably
the last of the symbol stuff, with the exception of
making the symset and roguesymset config file options
accept the keyword value "default".
This is an overhaul to the NetHack drawing mechanism.
- eliminates the need to have separate lists in drawing.c
for the things and their associated explanations by grouping
those thing together on the same inializer in a struct.
- replaces all of these options: IBMgraphics, DECgraphics, MACgraphics,
graphics, monsters, objects, boulder, traps, effects
- drawing.c contains only the set of NetHack standard symbols for
the main game and a set of NetHack standard symbols for the
roguelevel.
- introduces a symbols file that contains named sets of
symbols that can be loaded at run time making it extensible
for situations like multinational code pages like those reported
by <Someone>, without hardcoding additional sets into the game code.
- symbols file uses names for the symbols, so offsets will not break
when new things are introduced into the game, the way the older
config file uchar load routines did.
- symbols file only contains exceptions to the standard NetHack
set, not entire sets so they are much less verbose than all of
the g_FILLER() entries that were previously in drawing.c
- 'symset' and 'roguesymset' config file options for
preselecting a symbol set from the file called 'symbols'
at startup time. The name of the symbols file is not under the
users control, only the symbol set name desired from within the
symbols file is.
- 'symset' config file option loads a desired symbol set for
everything but the rogue level.
- 'roguesymset' config file option loads a desired symbol set
for the rogue level.
- 'SYMBOLS' config file option allows the user to specify replacement
symbols on a per symbol basis. You can specify as many or as few symbols
as you wish. The symbols are identified by a name:value pair, and line
continuation is supported. Multiple symbol assignments can be made on
the same line if each name:value pair is separated by a comma.
For example:
SYMBOLS = S_bars:\xf0, S_tree: \xf1, S_room:\xfa \
S_fountain:\xf4 \
S_boulder:0
- 'symbols' file has the following structure:
start: DECgraphics
Handling: DEC
S_vwall: \xf8 # meta-x, vertical rule
S_hwall: \xf1 # meta-q, horizontal rule
finish
start: IBMgraphics
Handling: IBM
S_vwall: \xb3 # meta-3, vertical rule
S_hwall: \xc4 # meta-D, horizontal rule
finish
- 'symbols' file added to the source tree in the dat directory
- Port Makefiles/scripts will need to be adjusted to move them into
HACKDIR destination
Only 5 months old. The Unix code to find saved games, currently only enabled
for Qt use, fails to use fqname and SAVEPREFIX, so it doesn't find saved
games when prefixes are in effect.
o Add support for zlib compression via ZLIB_COMP in config.h (ZLIB_COMP
and COMPRESS are mutually exclusive).
o rlecomp and zerocomp are run time options available if RLECOMP and
ZEROCOMP are defined, but not turned on by default if either COMPRESS
or ZLIB_COMP are defined.
o Add information to the save file about internal compression options
used when writing the save file, particularly rlecomp and zerocomp
support.
o Automatically adjust rlecomp and zerocomp (if support compiled in)
when reading in an existing savefile that was saved with those options
turned on. Still allows writing out of savefile in preferred format.
o In order to support zlib and not conflict with compress and uncompress
routines there, the NetHack internal functions were changed to
nh_uncompress and nh_compress as done in the zlib contribution received
in 1999 from <Someone>.
I tagged the sources NETHACK_3_5_0_PREZLIB prior to applying these
changes.
- always write plname into save file, no longer conditional
- add 'selectsaved' wincap option to control the display of
a menu of save files for ports/platforms that support it.
- add support for win32 tty using normal nethack menus.
- the win/tty/wintty code is generalized enough that any
tty port could support the option if the appropriate port-specific
code hooks for wildcard file lookups are added to src/file.c
specifically in the get_saved_games() routine. There is posix
code in there from Warwick already, and there is findfirst/findnext
code in there from win32. Warwick has the posix code only
enabled for Qt at present, but with wintty support, that could be expanded
to other Unix environments quite easily I would think.
Here is what the tty support looks like:
NetHack, Copyright 1985-2005
By Stichting Mathematisch Centrum and M. Stephenson.
See license for details.
Select one of your saved games
a - Bob
b - Fred
c - June
d - mine3
e - Sirius
f - Start a new character
(end)
The following files existed in the NetHack SAVEDIR directory
at the time:
ALLISONMI-Bob.NetHack-saved-game
ALLISONMI-Fred.NetHack-saved-game
ALLISONMI-June.NetHack-saved-game
ALLISONMI-mine3.NetHack-saved-game
ALLISONMI-Sirius.NetHack-saved-game
Note that despite the file names, the actual character name
is drawn from the savefile.
The WIN32CON support passes
USER-*.NetHack-saved-game
to findfirst/findnext where USER is your login name of course.
<Someone> complained that his compiler was giving these
warnings:
cmd.c:2119: warning: declaration of `expl' shadows a global declaration
dungeon.c:292: warning: declaration of `rand' shadows a global declaration
exper.c💯 warning: declaration of `exp' shadows a global declaration
files.c:278: warning: declaration of `basename' shadows a global declaration
hack.c:1102: warning: declaration of `expl' shadows a global declaration
pickup.c:2081: warning: declaration of `select' shadows a global declaration
role.c:1060: warning: declaration of `conj' shadows a global declaration
Fix the wizard mode crash From a bug report. Move the WIZKIT
message suppression to a lower level instead of trying to guard against
present and future pline() calls in the wishing code. The way that was
being handling wasn't suitable for dealing with quest feedback.
This also includes a couple of additional wishing synonyms.
This provides the core support needed for status field highlighting.
This patch doesn't actually perform status field highlighting for any port,
but provides the core hooks for doing so.
The syntax is:
OPTIONS=hilite_status:{fieldname}/{threshold}/{below}/{above}
where {fieldname} is the name of a status field.
{threshold} is the value used as the threshold to trigger a display
change. It can also be set to "updown" to trigger
a display change whenever it rises or whenever it falls.
If you end the threshold value with %, then it signifies
that you want to trigger the display change based on the
percentage of maximum.
{below}, {above}
are the color or display attribute that you want to use when
the field value is underneath the threshold. Supported display
fields are: normal, inverse, bold, black, red, green,
brown, blue, magenta, cyan, gray, orange,
bright-green, yellow, bright-blue, bright-magenta,
bright-cyan, or white.
Valid field names are:
alignment, armor-class, carrying-capacity,
charisma, condition, constitution, dexterity,
dungeon-level, experience-level, experience,
gold, HD, hitpoints-max, hitpoints, hunger,
intelligence, power-max, power, score,
strength, time, title, wisdom
Refer to window.doc for details. Guidebook updates to come later.
External names longer than 31 characters trigger a compiler warning
for me about truncation, and that causes make to quit. So shorten the
two long names. Also, call the cleanup routine for the FREE_ALL_MEMORY
configuration.
Add config.h experimental option AUTOPICKUP_EXCEPTIONS.
It's an interface-only change which allows you to add lines to your
config file to selectively avoid autopickup of items based on their
text description that is displayed when you pick them up. It does
it by matching a pattern against the xname singular return value.
For example:
autopickup_exception = "*corpse" will avoid picking up corpses, even if
food (%) is in your pickup_types.
autopickup_exception = "*brown*"
will avoid picking up any brown items (why, I do not know)
autopickup_exception = "*loadstone"
will NOT avoid picking up loadstones, unless they are already
identified, because the xname string will be "gray stone", so no
match there.
The matching has no knowledge of in-game objects, it is just
a text pattern match, thus it is an interface change, not a gameplay
change, and it is meant as a convenience for players.
Use fqname buffer 1 for restoring the save file (just like save does when
creating it) so the value won't change out from under the code in unixmain.
- Also moved a tty-specific hack in docompress_file that was causing
the 'y' response to the "keep the save file" prompt to be echoed twice.
Some changes for standard C platforms, to avoid declaring errno explictly.
Such platforms should declare errno in errno.h, which is already included
in the files in question.
Since only developers know that "13" is EACCES, try to include the text
message. I'm not 100% sure the ifdefs are complete, but it can be tweaked
as needed. This was the only common message in files.c that included errno
so it's the only one I changed. Of course, "13" is only one of several
possible errno values that might reasonably show up here.
Finally got around to installing OpenBSD (rev 3.3) in a vmware partition.
Found that several #if BSD's were inappropriate for modern BSD's. Haven't
installed FreeBSD or NetBSD, but based on reading their man pages,
these changes are needed there too. Mostly due to POSIX time() signature.
>>+ #define OPENFAILURE(fd) (fd < 0)
>>+ # endif
>> lockptr = 0;
>>! while (retryct-- && OPENFAILURE(lockptr)) {>nhversion: 3.4.1
>And now this is accepted as valid and nothing is opened...
Oops, thanks Janet.
>nhversion: 3.4.1
>
> nhfrom: 3.4.1 Official binary release for Windows 95/98/NT/2000/Me/XP
> (nh341win.zip)
> comments: Whenever I run NethackW.exe, the nethack window
> appears, and does not run anything. When I close out of the
> program, I get this message:
> Waiting for access to C:\GAMES\NETHACK341\record. (X retries left). > The X seems to always be either 9 or 59. I don't know how to fix this > > problem, any help would be greatly appreciated
<Someone> writes:
>win32 open() returns -1 if failed - same as POSIX open().
> There is no STDIN in GUI applications so 0 is a valid return
> value from open().
> So it should read like that unless that breaks Amiga code:
Since I can't test the Amiga code, I added a macro
OPENFAILURE to keep the Amiga code the same as it
is now. It should probably be reviewed by someone on
the Amiga team to verify if open() on the Amiga returns
0 or -1 on failure. If the latter, the macro could be
removed completely.
The previous changed ended up discarding the begining portion of
excessively long lines and keeping the end. It's unlikely that either
part is going to be valid, but reporting the ending portion as a failed
wish would make tracking down and fixing the situation trickier.
a few plines that were without punctuation. There may be more non-DEBUG
pline or pline-like things that are still missing punctuation. They are
almost impossible to find after the fact, since they could be anywhere,
including in various dat files and functions that pass strings and formats
into other functions that call pline.
Pat added some error information to create_levelfile.
This does the same for create_bonesfile, but the
only place it is logged is in the paniclog, unless
you're in wizard mode. If bones file creation is
silently failing for someone and they aren't getting
bones files, this provides a way to diagnose why.
1) consolidate all core usage of `errno' in files.c;
2) give more feedback for any failure by create_levelfile or open_levelfile,
similar to what was being done for problems during level change;
3) include trickery info in paniclog (many instances of "trickery" seem to
be due to disk or quota problems rather than user misbehavior...).
The create_levelfile call in pcmain probably ought to be changed to use
error feedback, but in the meantime this should continue working.
Perhaps error() should be modified to update paniclog too, but I didn't
want to go through all its port-specific incarnations making changes.
